DEADLINES: Project: 28 January 2011. Parents will be contacted.
Corrections on Papers written in December 2010. Discuss in class and finished by 24 January 2011.
WEEK 2
CLASSWORK:
Politics and Government:
PowerPoint presentation from every member of this class. Let me know on Monday who wants to work in a group or who wants to work on their own.
TOPICS FOR PRESENTATIONS:
• Political process: voting and elections, lobbying, open government and free movement of information (Kyah, Stefan)
• Government administration: record keeping, tax collection, policy implementation (Fabian)
• Legislation: policy development, enactment, enforcement and analysis (Charlotte)
• Police: DNA data collection, video surveillance (Evan) (Bongi)
• Military: cyberwarfare, smart weapons development, espionage (Jaco) (Thabang)
• Rebel and terrorist use of IT (Gorata) (Stanley)
DEADLINE: 28 January 2011, Mrs. Mall is invited to attend.
Describe two situations where it is more appropriate to use a machine than a person.
2
Describe two situations where it is more appropriate to use a person than a machine
3
Explain the beneficial attributes of both machines and people for performing particular tasks. These include stamina, memory, accuracy, speed, the need for breaks, patience, interpretation of results, and working in dangerous situations. This list is not exhaustive and should be discussed using actual contexts. Quantitative comparisons are not expected.
4
Discuss the characteristics of computers that assist humans in performing complex tasks including preparing budgets, creating address books, manipulating images and editing videos. Technical references to internal components are not required.
5
Discuss three situations involving ethical considerations that can arise from the use of machines/computers in place of people including the field of medicine. You are free to choose the other two situations. Other situations involving ethical issues are: education (e.g. machine as opposed to teacher marking); estimating the skills and/or performance of people (e.g. driving proficiency); computer-aided manufacturing.
Two portfolio's to be handed in for assessment: DEADLINE: 2 MARCH 2011
Database Questions: DEADLINE: 22 February 2011
CASE STUDY:
Bring Case Study to Class!!!
WEEK 7 - 10
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT!!!
Second Portfolio was due .....
Answer Case Study questions on your own wiki, make a link from our class wiki to your own.
CLASS ASSESSMENT: PAPER 1 AND 2 : MONDAY 14 MARCH 2011
here is a Wiki to help with the current case study questions posed to us, please visit it and use it. http://one-billion-and-one-questions.wikispaces.com/
One more thing come up with at least one question each for Mr.Veg and then we can combine them and post up the answers on the Wiki afterwards.
LAST WEEKS OF TERM 1 2011
Before you go on the work placement experience hand the following in:
2 Final portfolio's
Get articles for the last portfolio and discuss extention.
COMPLETE FINAL DRAFT EE AND E-MAIL TO ME
To Do Every Week:
Have a look at technology news on TV, in newspapers or on some of the sites listed above, notably the NPR Technology News podcasts. Keep up-to-date on how information technology is being used to help businesses, hospitals, governments, schools, or the entertainment industry. This will help you in your essay writing and class discussions because you will have a wide variety of real-life examples and you will build a collection of news items and vocabulary words.
TERM 3 - 2011
Portfolio’s are due on 16 September 2011.
Students who fail to hand in ALL AI's on Friday will go to Mrs. Mall.
Topics page 150 151.
Use the resources given and answer the following questions
in the form of a presentation due on Wednesday 21 September.
PAPER 3:
CASE STUDY
WEEK 1 TERM 2 : 2011
Work on pass papers, today in class we completed Paper 1.
Today (Tuesday) I will not be in, I am going to a conference on Smart Boards. Complete the paper 2 I handed out.
TO DO ASAP:
WEEK 2 - 3
Complete at least 2 final portfolio's.WEEK 4
Go to the System Fundamentals page on this wiki, we are going to study 2.2 Application software.DEADLINE: 20 JUNE 2011
WEEK 5 - 6
Revision:
GOOD LUCK WITH MOCK EXAMS!!!!
Play time is over!!
DEADLINES: EE : 28 January 2011. Parents will be contacted.
PORTFOLIOS: 1 Portfolio Final : 21 January 2011.
DEADLINES: Project: 28 January 2011. Parents will be contacted.
Corrections on Papers written in December 2010. Discuss in class and finished by 24 January 2011.
WEEK 2
CLASSWORK:
Politics and Government:PowerPoint presentation from every member of this class. Let me know on Monday who wants to work in a group or who wants to work on their own.
TOPICS FOR PRESENTATIONS:
• Political process: voting and elections, lobbying, open government and free movement of information (Kyah, Stefan)
• Government administration: record keeping, tax collection, policy implementation (Fabian)
• Legislation: policy development, enactment, enforcement and analysis (Charlotte)
• Police: DNA data collection, video surveillance (Evan) (Bongi)
• Military: cyberwarfare, smart weapons development, espionage (Jaco) (Thabang)
• Rebel and terrorist use of IT (Gorata) (Stanley)
DEADLINE: 28 January 2011, Mrs. Mall is invited to attend.
HOMEWORK: DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2011
WEEK 4
2.4.2 Artificial Intelligence
These include stamina, memory, accuracy, speed, the need for breaks, patience, interpretation of results, and working in dangerous situations. This list is not exhaustive and should be discussed using actual contexts. Quantitative comparisons are not expected.
Technical references to internal components are not required.
You are free to choose the other two situations. Other situations involving ethical issues are: education (e.g. machine as opposed to teacher marking); estimating the skills and/or performance of people (e.g. driving proficiency); computer-aided manufacturing.
HOMEWORK:
Deadline: 11 February 2011WEEK 5 - 7
Two portfolio's to be handed in for assessment: DEADLINE: 2 MARCH 2011
Database Questions: DEADLINE: 22 February 2011
CASE STUDY:
Bring Case Study to Class!!!
WEEK 7 - 10
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT!!!
Second Portfolio was due .....
Answer Case Study questions on your own wiki, make a link from our class wiki to your own.
CLASS ASSESSMENT: PAPER 1 AND 2 : MONDAY 14 MARCH 2011
here is a Wiki to help with the current case study questions posed to us, please visit it and use it.
http://one-billion-and-one-questions.wikispaces.com/
One more thing come up with at least one question each for Mr.Veg and then we can combine them and post up the answers on the Wiki afterwards.
LAST WEEKS OF TERM 1 2011
To Do Every Week: